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A significant chapter in British breeding's history has drawn to a close with Cheveley Park Stud announcing that the brilliant Pivotal has been retired from covering duty at the age of 28.
He stood a remarkable 24 consecutive seasons at the Newmarket operation, during which he developed into one of the most important stallions of the era. He boasts a stud record containing a mammoth 241 stakes performers, topped by 32 sons and daughters who have struck at the highest level.
It is not only the sheer scale of Pivotal's achievements that mark him out as an exceptional sire but the depth and diversity of his successes too. He has sired a Gr.1-winning 2YO in Siyouni, Classic scorers such as Halfway To Heaven, Saoire, and Sariska, as well as those who peaked later in life like Addeybb and Glen Shiel, who both landed Gr.1s last year at the age of six.
He has supplied top-class sprinters such as Kyllachy, Regal Parade, and Somnus, milers like Immortal Verse, Lightning Spear, and Virtual, and those best at ten furlongs or further, including African Story, Chorist, Farhh, and Izzi Top.
As well as siring so many high-class horses himself, in recent years he has garnered a reputation as a broodmare sire of the very highest order, with his daughters having produced 23 Gr.1 winners and counting.
Just as his own record is a study in strength in depth, his daughters have also produced a wide range of talents, including Gr.1-winning juveniles like Advertise and Fairyland, Classic performers such as Harbour Law, Hermosa, and Love, brilliant sprinters Golden Horde and Mayson, as well as a whole host of top-class middle-distance runners including Cracksman, Defoe, Magical and Main Sequence.
Those exploits, as well as the achievements of headline talents like Mabs Cross, One Master, and Rhododendron, helped Pivotal secure three champion broodmare sire crowns between 2017 and 2019.